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Shades of Wells Fargo and the old Pony Express. In cities throughout Oklahoma last week, a pair of young businessmen, Thomas Murray, 43, and Darrel Hinshaw, 31, were operating their own private postal system in direct competition with Uncle Sam-and making money at it too. No wonder. The U.S. Post Office these days is a monument to inefficiency, and week after week the catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended...
...surprise is that the U.S. mails move at all. The Post Office work load is staggering. Last year 716,000 postal workers coped with 80 billion pieces of mail. Next year 84 billion pieces will go down the chutes into a system plagued by inadequate buildings, antiquated equipment, eleven militant unions, and a patronage system that makes political plums of the nation's 32,000 postmasterships. Yet Congress is reluctant to reform the system, has cast a cold eye on a recent recommendation by a presidential commission to replace the Post Office Department with a Government-owned corporation...
First-Class Third Class. Murray and Hinshaw decided that they could only do better. Last winter, on an investment of $2,000,000, they formed the Independent Postal System of America. Right now their corporation handles only third-class "junk" mail (which accounts for 27% of all mail), mainly in Oklahoma, with outlets in Tulsa, Ardmore and Oklahoma City, plus one in Dallas. Independent postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody...
...June tax bill demanded that federal agencies hire only three new workers to replace every four who leave Government service until federal manpower is scaled down to the 2,366,000 level of June 30, 1966. The formula is only theoretically simple. The beleaguered postal service protested that it could not reduce its payroll of 710,000 without either 1) having to pay vastly increased overtime, thus virtually canceling its savings, or 2) seriously curtailing deliveries and service. Postmaster General Marvin Watson warned the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee that he would be forced to shut down...
...return to work began to develop. Union leaders started negotiating with the government and plant owners for an end to the strike on the basis of Pompidou's earlier concessions. Some government postal and telegraph workers went back to their posts. Production resumed at several Peugeot auto plants, and the company expected a full force on the assembly lines this week...